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![]() . . . CAREFREE see "HAPPINESS" for related links Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. --Thomas Gray (17161771) English poet. _On a Distant Prospect of Eton College_, st. 6 ----- blithe (adj.) Happy, cheerful, and carefree idyll [EYE-dl], noun: 1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like. 2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme. 3. A lighthearted carefree episode or experience. 4. A romantic interlude. Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. --Joanne Harris, _Chocolata_ insouciant (adjective) Having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree. Syn.: happy-go-lucky, lighthearted, carefree Related: giddy, nonchalant Derived: insouciance, n.; insouciantly, adv. raffish (adj.) ['rζ-fish] 1. Vulgar in taste, appearance, dissolute in behavior; rakish or 2. Dashing, carefree or unconventionally fun-loving; rakish. ![]() ![]() CAREFUL . . Make haste slowly. --Augustus [Gaius Octavius] (63 B.C.14 A.D.) The first Roman emperor. In _Lives of the Caesars_ [c.121] by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. --Yogi Berra (1925 ) American baseball player and manager; elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. ^^ Carol Burnett (1934 ) American actress Climbing out of a cab one day, Miss Burnett inadvertently caught her coat in the door. As the driver continued on his way, unaware of the accident, the comedienne was obliged to run alongside the moving vehicle to avoid being pulled off her feet. A quick-thinking passerby, noticing her plight, hailed the cab and alerted the driver. Having realeased Miss Burnett's coat, the driver asked her anxiously, "Are you all right?" "Yes," she replied, still gasping for breath, "but how much more do I owe you?" --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^^ Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to Maria Cosway [12 October 1786]. Chance generally favors the prudent. --Joseph Joubert (17541824) French philosopher. You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps. --Cotton Mather (16631728) American Congregational minister and author. Advice to Benjamin Franklin upon approaching a low hanging beam in his parsonage. Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Romeo and Juliet_ [15951596], act II, scene iii ----- fastidious (adj.) 1. Exceedingly particular or demanding esp. in matters of detail; exacting. Syn.: picky, persnickety, exacting, finicky, Cr.Syn.: careful, particular Similar: hypercritical, choosy, particular, demanding, captious, fussy, meticulous 2. Excessively sensitive or delicate in matters of food, manners, dress, or personal hygiene. Syn.: squeamish Similar: sensitive, fussy Related: prim, precise, critical, finicky, exact, conscientious Derived: fastidiously, adverb; fastidiousness, noun meticulous [muh-TIK-yuh-luhs], adjective: Extremely or excessively careful about details. persnickety (adj.) 1. Fussy or demanding. Syn.: particular, fussy, fastidious Similar: squeamish, picky, hypercritical, exacting, finicky, 2. Requiring painstaking care of detail. Synonyms: particular Similar: nitpicking, meticulous, fussy, exacting, punctilious Derived: persnicketiness, n. punctilious (adj.) [pκngk-'ti-lee-κs] Strict about or attentive to details of proper conduct and conventional matters. Similar to "meticulous," but the two are not interchangeable. "Meticulous" means careful and precise about details. "Punctilious" adds the dimension of being careful and precise about the details of conventional conduct. solicitous [suh-LIS-uh-tuhs], adjective: 1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern. 2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive. 3. Extremely careful; meticulous. 4. Full of desire; eager. ![]() ![]() CARELESS . . Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. The consul called the troops an army who had betrayed military discipline and deserted its standards. He then asked them individually where their weapons were, or their standards, as the case might be, and gave orders that every soldier who had lost his equipment, every standard-bearer who had lost his standard, every centurion, too, who had abandoned his post, should be first flogged and then beheaded. The remainder were decimated. --Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC17 AD) with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians [EB]. _The History of Rome_, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] Cohan & Major note that: This is the earliest (471 BC) recorded example of decimation, the selection by lot of every tenth man for execution. It is probably an instance of the creation of an early precedent for a later practice. It was rarely carried out but was revived at the end of the Republic and used from time to time by emperors. Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous. --Adlai E. Stevenson (19001965) American Democratic politician Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to render any man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice. --Francis Wayland, D.D. (17961865) Baptist minister, President of Brown University, professor of moral philosophy, and author. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. _Life's Scars_ - We can imagine no reason why, with ordinary care, human toes could not be left out of chewing tobacco, and if toes are found in chewing tobacco, it seems to us that somebody has been very careless. --Pillars vs. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. [1918] ----- cursory [KUR-suh-ree], adjective: Hastily or superficially performed. Ex.: "On most days, however, she confined her daily reading to a cursory scan of two or three newspapers." --James A. Drake, _Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography_ ![]() ![]() CARING . . see "KINDNESS" for related links It is a general error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. Observations on a publication entitled "The Present State of the Nation" [1769] Unless someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not. --Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (19041991) American writer and illustrator of children's books. _The Lorax_ [1971] Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek epic poet. There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living. --Don Marquis (18781937) American poet and journalist. I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't . . . My dear, I don't give a damn. --Margaret Mitchell (19001949) American novelist, _Gone with the Wind_ [1936] {Spoken by Rhett Butler in ch. 57.} - Not long ago, one of the nationally known picture magazines had a photograph of a man prostrate on subway stairs. For thirty minutes many people passed him by without ever a helping hand. The editorial comment was about the coldness of the modern man in the face of distress. What was forgotten was that the photographer of the picture magazine did nothing for thirty minutes for the afflicted individual except to snap pictures and make his own living. --Fulton John Sheen (18951979) Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television. _On Being Human_ [1982] - I didn't think I'd ever need a friend because I had him . . .The only person who ever really cared if I lived or died. Lots of people were interested in whether I lived or died, but he cared. --Ruth, a character in Toni Morrison _Song Of Solomon_ [1987], Ch. 5 TOPICAL - REMEMBER AFRICA We live in a world of light and shade where people suffer and need our aid. Where children starve, their eyes downcast, with legs like sticks they're forced to fast. Do we care enough? Do we care? On TV we've seen them there, babies sucking on dry breasts bare. Once strong fathers giving up hope - with hunger and fear it's hard to cope. Do we care enough? Do we care? Men and women, old and young, walking for miles in the glaring sun. Upright and gaunt they make their way, refugees in the heat of the day. Do we care enough? Do we care? This miserable mass, flying no flags, just bundles of bones clad only in rags; tormented and goaded by fat filthy flies, crawling on faces with tearless dead eyes. Do we care enough? Do we care? When skeletal children stop asking why, and frail old people just lie down and die. When feudal armies plunder and fight, caring nothing for human right. Do we care enough? Do we care? How can we help to ease their pain? Find them water to grow their grain? Care and support is what they need, Not fear and hunger or selfish greed. Do we care enough? Do we care? --Written for Christian Aid by Valerie Copeland - http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200406040840.asp . . . "If this caring world is worried about the injustice of a fence or Islamaphobia, then start slurring nuclear India for its $1 billion fence, which shuts off the entire (impoverished Muslim) country of Bangladesh - a far harsher blow to far more millions than Israel's so-called "Wall" aimed at stopping suicide killing. "If we hate the principle of "occupied lands," then let Europe cease trade with China and hector that dictatorial government about the cultural obliteration of occupied Tibet. "If we are truly worried about violence, then let the U.N. and the EU turn their attention to Nigeria, where thousands are murdered yearly. "If the death of tens of thousands of Muslims and the desecration of mosques bother the Arab League, then let them blast the Arabs of the Sudan, who are systematically and in the most racist fashion butchering black Muslims. "But if after all that we have still not gotten our bearings, then let us rail about Sharon and the "occupation," and thus enable the Arab world to forget its self-induced misery and find psychic reassurance, as Europe too often has, by blaming Jews." . . . - I mean its one thing to be ruled by an elite in a country. There are elites of merit. There are elites of wealth. There are elites of birth. We can have various objections to being ruled by any of those elites, but none of them are as objectionable as the self-selected elite. And the Democrats tend to regard themselves as an elite fit to run the nation strictly on the basis of how much they care about the problems. I care more than you do, therefore Im a better person that you are. Because Im a better person than you are, it is only right and just that I have greater input into how our society is run. Its my privilege, indeed my duty, to make sure that everything goes right since Im such a much better person than you are because I care more. Why do I care more? Because I say I care more. This just is not a sufficient cause for elitism as far as I can see. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. [Interview c. 2000] ----- solicitous suh-LIS-uh-tuhs, adjective: 1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern. 2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive. 3. Extremely careful; meticulous. 4. Full of desire; eager. ![]() . . see "LIFE" for related links But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. --Art Buchwald (19252007) American journalist and humorist who won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. --Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th4th century B.C.) Founder of Buddhism. When you're younger, you want to be sure that by the time you're eighty years old you can sit on the bench and look back and say, "Man, I did it all. I didn't miss a thing." --Bill Cosby (1937 ) American comedian. ^^ I read _The Times_ and if my name is not in the obits I proceed to enjoy the day. --attributed to Noλl Coward (18991973) English playwright, actor, and composer. --_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Death" ^^ Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. --James Dean (19311955) American film actor. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. (Translation of Horace's _Odes_, bk. 3 # 29.) The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now this day this hour. --Charles Macomb Flandrau (18711938) American writer. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. --Sydney J. Harris (19171986) American journalist. 'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero.' Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. "Odes" There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life ...significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will. --Grenville Kleiser (18681953) American writer of humor and inspiration. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of each day and hour. --Stephen Butler Leacock (18691944) Canadian humorist. Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. An occasional glance at the obituary column of _The Times_ has suggested to me that the sixties are very unhealthy; I have long thought that it would exasperate me to die before I had written this book, and so it seemed to me that I had better set about it at once. When I have finished it I can face the future with serenity, for I shall have rounded off my life's work. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Summing Up_ [1938], Chapter III Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_, # 633 Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today. --Pierre de Ronsard (15241585) French poet. "Sonnets pour Hιlθne" 1, 43 Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. _Counsels and Maxims_, ch. 2 How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get Social Security, not girls. --Neil Simon (1927 ) American playwright. _Come Blow Your Horn_ [1961] Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. --Sophocles (496?406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Trachiniae_, Line 943 As I got older I became aware of the folly of this perpetual reaching after the future, and of drawing from tomorrow, and from tomorrow only, a reason for the joyfulness of today. I learned, when alas, it was almost too late, to live each moment as it passed over my head. --William Hale Whiteend page | CALAMITIES - CALM | CALUMNY - CAMPAIGN FINANCING | CAMPAIGNS & CANADA | CANCER - CAN'T WIN | CAPITALISM | CAREFREE - CARPE DIEM | CARTER (JIMMY) - CATS & DOGS | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - CENSORSHIP | CERTAINTY - CHANGE | CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) & CHANGING TIMES | CHARACTER | CHARACTER ASSASINATION - CHEERFULNESS | CHEER UP! - CHILDHOOD | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RHYME | CHILE & CHINA | CHOCOLATE - CHRISTIANITY | CHRISTMAS | CHURCH - CIGARS | CIRCUMSTANCES & CITIES | CIVILITY - CIVIL RIGHTS | CLARITY - CLICHES | CLOTHES - COFFEE | COLD - COLORS | COMEDY | COMFORT - COMMON SENSE | COMMUNICATION | COMMUNISM | COMPANIONSHIP - COMPASSION | COMPETITION - COMPLIMENTS | COMPOSERS - CONDUCTORS | CONFESSION - CONQUEST | CONSCIENCE - CONTENTED | CONTEXT - CONVENTIONAL WISDOM | CONVERSATION | CONVICTION & COOKING | COOLIDGE - CORPORATIONS | CORRECTING - COURAGE | COURT - COWS | CREATIVITY - CRIME | CRIME & PUNISHMENT - CROOKS | CRITICISM & CRITICS | CROWD (THE) - CUBA | CULTURE - CYNICS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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